- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.
- Looking Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.
- Conceded
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
- Furry
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The black community has always been a fan of horror films, but in terms of the participants, they've been few and far between.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020